Numerical modeling of plasmonic nanoantennas with realistic 3D roughness and distortion

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 7178-7187

  Kildishev, Alexander V ^a   Borneman, Joshua D ^a   Chen, Kuo Ping ^a   Drachev, Vladimir P ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Moving mesh; Optical sensing; Plasmonic metamaterials; Plasmonic nanoantenna; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960777886     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110707178     Document Type: Article

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